First Drafts of Rock takes a look at an early version of The Beach Boys’ “Fun, Fun, Fun.”
The Real Story Behind Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl”
“Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield is a classic song and Jimmy Kimmel has always wondered what the real story behind it was. It turns out they shot video of the first time Rick and his band ever played it and it is absolutely fascinating.
https://youtu.be/CQYpg8rOzMY
By the way, that’s Ronnie Vannucci Jr. of The Killers playing drums.
Full Video: Horton Hears A Who! (CBS, 1970)
The 1966 cartoon of How The Grinch Stole Christmas was so popular that director Chuck Jones (Looney Toones), followed up with Horton Hears A Who! It aired in 1970 on CBS.
Horton is an elephant splashing in the watering hole of the Jungle of Nool on the fifteenth of May when he hears a person calling for help. The sound is coming from a small dust speck. Dr. H. Hoovey, an astronomer on the speck, believes that there’s a world beyond the speck, but the rest of the Whos don’t believe him at first. He explains to Horton that the speck is in danger if it’s floating around. “A person’s a person, no matter how small,” says Horton as he decides to save the Whos. But the other jungle citizens don’t believe him as they are unable to see them and can’t hear as well. Meanwhile, the citizens of Whoville refuse to believe the existence of Horton, but eventually they do. Jane Kangaroo, the Wickersham brothers,and the Black-Bottomed Eagle are Horton’s main and worst tormentors, but at last, the Whos make themselves heard. At the end of the special, Dr. Hoovey is relaxing in his chair, exhausted from the ordeal, when he sees a small speck of dust and hears a “Help!” on it, and says the final line: “Oh, no!”
https://youtu.be/K0xQsleqNyQ
Bill Nye Reads Mean Tweets About Himself
“You pretend the global warming fairy is real even as you live in a mansion. Maybe do cartwheels for voodoo.”
Parrot Sings The Lego Movie’s ‘Everything Is Awesome’
Birds on Safari, a pet store in Stuart, Fla., posted a video of a yellow-naped Amazon parrot named Princess Yellowfeather that sings “Everything is Awesome” from The Lego Movie. I’d sign her and get her on tour with Tegan & Sara.
Universal Releases Five-Year Development Plan; Lucian Grainge Stays On Until At Least 2020
Paris, July 31, 2015
Vivendi:
– Five-year development plan for Universal Music Group
– Lucian Grainge committed to UMG and Vivendi at least
until 2020
Vivendi has agreed on a five-year development plan with the senior management of Universal Music Group (UMG). Present in over 60 countries and owning a portfolio of 50 prestigious labels, UMG is the global leader in music. It has an annual turnover of nearly 5 billion euros and employs over 7,000 people in the world. This plan will enable the company to maintain its profitable growth and continue to play a leading role in the transformation of the music industry.
UMG will accelerate the monetization of music on digital channels, broaden the reach of its audio and visual content through multiple partnerships with platforms and strengthen its strategic relationships with brands and sponsors. It will pursue its industry-leading track record of talent management and development. UMG will also continue investing in high-potential markets for music, such as Africa, India and China.
Key to this strategy is the fact that Lucian Grainge CBE, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UMG, has committed to UMG and the Vivendi Group for a further five years, until at least 2020. Appointed to his current position in 2011, Lucian Grainge has held a variety of functions within the music industry spanning over thirty years. After joining UMG in 1986 to launch PolyGram Music Publishing UK, Lucian Grainge held the positions of Chairman of Universal Music UK and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group International. He spearheaded the international expansion of UMG and the diversification of the company’s activities.
UMG is at the heart of Vivendi’s strategy to refocus the Group on media and content creation and to be the preferred partner for all creative talent.
About Vivendi
Vivendi is an integrated media and content group. The company operates businesses throughout the media value chain, from talent discovery to the creation, production and distribution of content. The main subsidiaries of Vivendi comprise Canal+ Group and Universal Music Group. Canal+ is the leading pay-TV operator in France, and also serves markets in Africa, Poland and Vietnam. Canal+ operations include Studiocanal, a leading European player in production, sales and distribution of film and TV series. Universal Music Group is the world leader in recorded music, music publishing and merchandising, with more than 50 labels covering all genres. A separate division, Vivendi Village, brings together Vivendi Ticketing (ticketing in the UK, France and the U.S.), MyBestPro (experts counseling), Watchever (subscription video-on-demand) and the Paris-based concert venue L’Olympia. With over 2.5 billion videos viewed each month, Dailymotion is one of the biggest aggregation and distribution platforms in the world. www.vivendi.com, www.cultureswithvivendi.com, www.themediashaker.com
Apple Music Uses Snapchat To Offer A Sneak Inside Beats 1 Global Studios
Apple Music’s first Snapchat story. Beats 1, by the way, is a great service and loving it.
Bikini Kill To Reissue 1991 Cassette ‘Revolution Girl Style Now’
The original and extremely influential Riot Grrrl leaders Bikini Kill will reissue their original demo tape Revolution Girl Style Now, featuring three unreleased tracks. The original cassette was recorded by Pat Maley and self released by the band in 1991, just before collaborating with high-profile acts such as Nirvana and Joan Jett, and taking a stand by shunning the major labels and the mainstream rock press.
They truly encouraged a female-centric environment at their shows, urging women to come to the front of the stage and handing out lyric sheets to them.
This reissue was mixed by Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) and mastered by John Golden.
Track Listing:
Candy
Daddy’s L’il Girl
Feels Blind
Suck My Left One
Carnival
This Is Not A Test
Double Dare Ya
Liar
Ocean Song
Just Once
Playground
Dwight Yoakam On Abstaining From Alcohol And Drugs
I never drank. It never had an allure to me. I’d been raised in a very abstinent environment. The one smart thing I did in my life was I didn’t really succumb to that particular vice. I never really did drugs. Look, I was the guy that gave the debriefing to all my friends a day or so later. They’d say, “So what happened the other night?” “What was that going on, man?”…it was almost like living the Three Dog Night hit “Mama Told Me Not to Come.” 1977 in L.A., California, was absolutely like “Mama Told Me Not to Come.” [Laughs]
Listen To Peter Gabriel’s Games Without Frontiers In German
In the early ’80s Peter Gabriel wrote to the heads of his various labels around Europe and offered to re-record his vocals in their native tongue. However, only one nation replied: Germany.
The German version of PG 3 (‘Melt’), set to be reissued on vinyl on October 2, along with Peter Gabriel’s first four solo albums. Hence full German versions of his third and fourth solo albums – 1980’s PG 3 (aka ‘Melt’) and 1982’s PG 4 (aka ‘Security’) – were created of Gabriel’s classic Games Without Frontiers, re-recorded as Spiel Ohne Grenzen.
The translated editions are being released on vinyl for the first time alongside solo albums PG1-4, which will be released on limited edition, gatefold vinyl on October 2.
“I wrote to the French, Italian, German and Spanish labels, saying I wanted to experiment creating a version of my album in another language. The only label to show any interest was the German, hence the choice,” Gabriel tells MOJO of his language experiments.
“It also gave me a chance to try new mixing and remixing approaches, with some new overdubs and to take another look at the lyrics through the process of translation with Horst Konigstein, with whom I spent a long time going through layers of meaning in the new language. I also insisted on having the German lyrics independently translated back to English.”
Listen to Spiel Ohne Grenzen below now.
https://youtu.be/HII5VANpiAU
Via MOJO Magazine